Removing unneccessary messages from your login sequence.
    A Lesson for all Semi-Advanced users.
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Are you someone who doesn't want to see the "Electronic 
Reports" notice every time you log in?  Maybe you don't
read E-News (shame!) or for whatever reason don't want
to know how many news articles are waiting for you when
you log in.  Maybe you just don't like having to press
<ENTER> after all these messages.  This lesson is
for you.
	
It is entirely possible for you to customize *your* 
personal account to eliminate some (or all) of these
messages.
	
The key to it all is a file in your home directory on
ACENET called ".login"  BE VERY CAREFUL NOT TO CORRUPT
THIS FILE BECAUSE IT CONTROLS YOUR ABILITY TO LOG IN.
	
To edit the file log into ACENET and use "u" to get 
a unix shell prompt.  

Then enter the following commands:
copy .login .login.backup          (in case of trouble you'll
                                     have a backup)
pico .login                        (pico is an ASCII file editor
                                     -- the same one that is
                                        used when composing a
                                        mail message in Pine)

************************************************************
NOTICE: All lines beginning with the "#" sign are considered
comments and will not affect your login.
************************************************************

(Special note for users of systems other than ACENET: Your
.login file will not have the specific options listed below.
You can control what happens as you login this way, but the
options will be very different.)

Edit the file to reflect the login options you would like.
  Of particular interest to you will be the line
unset Skip_ReportDate
  As noted by the comments in the file itself, make it say
set Skip_ReportDate
  ...and you won't have to put up with all the stuff about
  when Electronic Reports were last updated.
Save the file, exit pico and you're done.
Logout and back in to see that everything is OK.  (Actually,
logging in from a different computer is a better way to
check things out so that you can still undo any errors you
may have created!)

If you don't want the E-News or E-Mail notification, change
those also.  I suggest keeping the Message of the Day just because
that's where notification of system shutdowns would occur.

Skip_Hold will make it so you don't have to press Enter during the
login process.

Skip_Menu is for those people who'd rather drive from a unix
prompt.  If you do this you can still get the menus by entering
"mainmenu".  To get a list of other commands available from a 
unix prompt enter "help".

If you need help, please contact a member of the CTU for assistance.

Greg Parmer
gparmer@acesag.auburn.edu